Xx hoo hook and eye



(No Model.) J. P. SCHOEPPL;

' HOOK A'N-D EYE.

PatentedApr, 21, 1 896.

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HGGK: AN EYE.

SPECIFICATION forming part o Trotters Patent No. 558,616, dated April 21, 1896. Application filed February 27,1293. seennmreases. (Nomode1.)

to a hook and eye or like connecting device.

'In. the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 shows two parts ofa garment joined may improved book and eye, said hook airdjeyo being shown ih dottedlincs. Fig. 2 is awsoo- Fig. 3 shows the m anner of securing the hook in place, the inner facing of material being removed. Fig, i is alike view of the eye. *Fig. 5 is new or the...

hook removed. Fig.6 is a like View of the eye removed. Fig. T'is view of a modified form of eye, and Fig. 8 is a sectional View of the hook.

Like letters indicate like parts in each of the figures of the drawings.

My improved hook and eye may be formed of any suitable metal having the requisite strength and resiliency. Tlhe hook a nnay be of any suitable shape, and it is composed of the side portions a, and the tail portion a the hook proper, g, being a continuation of the side portions a, bent to the proper distance. It is apparent that by connecting the forward ends of said side portions 0. by a straight bar an eye Will be obtained, so that the same con- 5 struction applies both to the hook and the eye. Projecting forwardly from the tail. por

tio'n a between the side portions a is the I ton ue h. The, said ton ue I) has the shoul- It! ders 0 formed thereon and, preferably, the 4o rounded or tapering head cl, so that when the said tongue is inserted in the material the shoulders will prevent its Withdrawal with out first drawing the cloth over and away from said shoulders. The tongue I) is slightly 5 inclined at the forward end to permit of its sired. The hooknd has the openin gs f formed in the forward end thereof, through which the ,rial. The hook proper, g, of the hook it has the slit h cut therein, which forms anindepend ent tongue ion said hook proper and forms with said tongue the lugjv This lug j extends below the lower face of the hookproper, g, and is preferably rounded on its lower face.-

As the metal from which the hook a. is formed possesses a certain amount of resiliency, the ton gue'i, formedin the hookproper, g, will possess the samequality, so that when the hook is brought into engagement with the eye, as will more fully appear, the eye will overcome the resistancepiiered to it by the lug j, and having passed beyond said lug to the pointof connection between said hook and eye said lug will spring back to its normal position and so prevent the eye from disengaging itself of its own accord from the hook, This tongue 2' may be omitted, however, and the lugj formed directly on the hook proper, g.

The eye 7.: may be formed of like metal and consists of the shank Z with the pointed end opening instead-of using the strap, if so dean and shoulders at similar to anarrow-head,

the opposite end of said shank having the head 0 and shoulders 19. The ends of said eye may be provided with openings q. The eye 71'. may be formed with a forWardly-projecting tongue similar to the tongue I) and. for the same purpose.

In Fig. 7 I have shown a modified form of In applying my improved hook and eye to a garment, an openingis first made'in the under linings of the garment at the proper position. This opening is made large enough to receive the tongue I) of the hook a; but be fore inserting the tongue 12 Within the opening formed for it in the under lining s, in cases Where the hook is secured by a strap, a

strap 6 is passed around the tongue band the I 2 assets .of saidvhook, In this manner the hook Toinitt ed, if desired, and the hook be held in is tightly bound the under lining s, the

v tongue I) acting'to"1old the hook seen-rely .in I

place and preven it being drawn from its position by the pulling strain to which it is "subjected, while at the same time the strap t holds it down in place. The strapi maybe place by stitches passingthrough thoopen.

ings. Byhaving the strap t ai-rag:igedfinI'the'; mannershownfa wide strap may be employed,

While. at the same ti'ine the pulling strain on the hook is evenly divided, and, consequently, there is notinorest win on one sidethan the other which acts to displace the hook-and prevent its proper'engagenient with the eye.

When the hook has been thus secured. in

place, the inner facing ails then placedovelthe strap and the body of the hook, leaving only the hook proper, g, exposed. By the above-described manner of securing the hook in place the inner facing -ucan' bc sewed 4 in place without making the garment bulky en; that point, as the strap and body ofthe hook a are; flat and do not bulge out, therehy presentinga'very neat finish to the garment.

' lhe eye /Q' issecnred in place by making two openings in the under lining s and passingthe poin ted end m of said-eye through said opei'iings, as shown in Fig; 4, when the shoulders 1'9 of the heado will prevent the eye from further forward progress, while the shoulders at on the pointed end m will act to prevent its withdrawal; but toinsure iurther 'Sono iPrL, have agttiimt its itlnlrawal i-ne 'piioted end m may he stitched to the under lining is through the opening (1, By haying the eye pass through the under lining in the Ina-liner above described a more secure connection is made with said under lining than Where the eye is sewed to the outer surface ofihe 'gmaterial, as in the ordinary Way.

In connecting the hook rt-with the eye said lug, spri riging hack to its no rmal position, p'revents the eye 7r. from slipping of its own aeeordf om'thehook I l a' Gl aLim as my invention, and desire to seeure by Letteis Patent, is

:1. In a hook and eye or like connecting de- V ,the said eye is slipped past the lug j, when] vice, a body portion having a forwanlly-pro" ,jecting tongue inthe rear of the point .of Conneotion constructed to enter the material to which said body portion is to be attached, said body portion having an opening in the rear of said tongue, substantially as and Ear the purposes set forth. 7

2. In a hookend eye. an eye composed of :th' hank 1;, the pointed enil m hating the 'sh ersm and the enlargement 0 having "the houlders'p, substantially as and, for the JOSEPH F. SGlHl-EPPL. 

